Bioethics and the posthumanities
Introduction: Encounters between bioethics and the posthumanities / Danielle Sands -- Therapy, enhancement, and the social model of disability / Michael Wee -- Rethinking the posthuman in bioethics / David Boden and Sarah Chan -- Gen-ethics, policy and the posthumanities / Ruth …
"Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age" ... Back cover.
"Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of science fiction into the realm of everyday life, and scholars and laypeople alike are struggling to find wa…
Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies--cognitive theory, syste…
What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness, emotion, language, intelligen…
"This work expands the new and developing field of cartographic inquiry in qualitative and postqualitative research, Immersive cartography draws together diverse theories and practices from process philosophy, contemporary art, ecological aesthetics, ethnography, education, and …
Latin American culture and the limits of the human
"This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and how the nonhuman world helps define personhood. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about h…